Most of the time, when you first install a sprouts wallet, the “wallet.dat” file is stored on a PC running windows 7 in the following location:

C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Sprouts

You can just use a file manager like windows explorer to copy the “wallet.dat” file to another directory. Then make multiple copies of the “wallet.dat” file and stash them in other locations for better security, like a CD, another PC, a flash drive, etc.

It can be renamed from “wallet.dat” to whatever you want, something like “sprouts_saved_wallet_oct_2017.dat” to help you recall which wallet this is.

I’d recommend doing this often. And, this is critical, be sure you have added a password to the wallet to encrypt it, before copying it somewhere else. If you don’t encrypt the wallet.dat file, anyone can steal that file, pop it into a sprouts wallet of their own and move your coins off to another wallet (thus stealing your coins).

With an encrypted wallet, if somehow, someone (even a virus) was able to steal your wallet.dat files, they would not be able to move any coins off of it if they don’t have your password.

If at some point you need to re-install the wallet, or install it on another PC, you’d simply copy and rename the “sprouts_saved_wallet_oct_2017.dat” to “wallet.dat”. Then copy the “wallet.dat” file you just created back to the new roaming directory:

C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Sprouts

The above “roaming” directory is the coin’s data directory. It can be created anywhere, like a secondary drive, by adding an inline option to the wallet executable… but this is another story.

@crbru.yuthafiga
So I downloaded the new file and extracted to my %appdata%… still same error…
I copied the wallet.dat file to my other computer and clean install there … but still same error what now?